Nord Stage 4 - Advanced Tutorial with Chris Martirano

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Join Chris Martirano as he gives an advanced tutorial on the Nord Stage 4 at the Kraft Music studio.

00:00 - Intro
01:26 - Specifications
02:17 - What's new
03:24 - Additional specs
08:20 - Diving into sounds
09:05 - Piano sounds
11:13 - Layering a second piano sound
12:28 - Changing the dynamic curve of a sound
13:18 - Using unison
14:02 - Switching out your sound library
15:00 - Sampling
15:38 - Exploring the synth section
18:17 - Editing sounds on the fly
20:37 - Using the arpeggiator
23:20 - Using arpeggiators on individual patches
26:03 - Simulating a female voice
27:20 - Additional voices
27:50 - Switching through programs
31:58 - About the triple and single pedals
23:29 - Outro

Nord Stage 4 features an intuitive panel design with dedicated LED faders for each Layer, providing exceptional overview and flexibility when creating sounds and performing live. Stage 4's Preset Library is packed with inspiring ready-to-use Piano, Synth, and Organ sounds for q­uick and smooth patch creation, while the Layer Scene lets you seamlessly switch between two different sound setups at the touch of a button. With powerful Effect sections for each layer coupled with versatile pedal options and a premium Triple Sensor keybed, Nord Stage 4 offers a new level of musical expression.

Nord Stage 4 comes in three models, all featuring Triple Sensor keybeds with aftertouch as well as Physical Drawbars with LED indicators: Nord Stage 4 88 with 88 fully weighted keys (A-C); Nord Stage 4 73 with 73 fully weighted keys (E-E); Nord Stage 4 Compact with 73 Semi Weighted Waterfall keys (E-E).

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[jobersonmacedo]

Best video tutorial of nord stage 4 here on youtube. Thanks.

[narfsounds]

I love the super efficient workflow on the Nord Stage 4 it's a huge jump from the 3. The quality of the effects are best in class and rival dedicated external effects units and certainly the best on a hardware keyboard.

[marklawrence]

A superb demonstration of the Nord Stage 4. Thanks for sharing. Ps you are immensely talented Chris.

[thevirtualcockpit]

Been playing my Motif 8 for twenty years and looking forward to adding the Stage 4 to the quiver. I am SO looking forward to the analog control for "on the fly" tunings etc.
Thank you Chris, for this deep dive into the hands on use of this instrument. I'm really getting the logic of the layout.

[jacdriessen]

Best Review ever for the Nord Stage 4
Chapeau ❤

[HeavyNailsPiano]

Thank you so much. I’ve been waiting for somebody bold enough to share some settings! Chris, please show us how to select a sample or two and how to set it up with the triple pedal. I just bought the triple pedal, but can’t figure out how to set it up. Thank you so much!

[tom]

Wow Chris, you rule the stage 4. Very nice sounds

[MobileCustoms]

awesome run-through, thanks! Time to start digging into mine.

[laurencemuliika]

I am in love chief 😂 with this ting man

[Resounded]

Great Video ! I love my Nord Stage 4 !

[neuron]

Funny that Sweden did so much for music, both in actual music and instruments.

[M_E_T_R_O__]

i'm coming from a stage 2, and since ive got it ive always used "pending load" to basically cue up the next song as soon as i find out what it will be.... for years now this has let me have it ready to go so i can instantly switch to the new patch and come into the next track.. but im hearing that this ESSENTIAL feature was removed for some reason?

So, with that in mind, when i get my stage 4, how will I cue up my next patches live so i can instantly begin the next tracks, without switching to it early? Is this just an after thought now needing a workaround or have Nord not considered this? Surely the keyboard doesn't change the patch simply by scrolling, we need the ability to look then pick one? thanks

From what i hear people loved SONG MODE on the Stage 3 but it was removed too, is there a reason for all the inconsistency?

[istominmusic]

For example, in Yamaha FX or Korg KronosX (and these are older instruments) I can safely adjust the length of the piano (for example by making it end abruptly after releasing a key). But this simple possibility is again not available in NORD. But at the same time this possibility is in the synthesizer block. How so? Again an expensive instrument does not provide a feature that has been around for a long time in other instruments.
Here, I recently bought myself a Nordstage 4 88, but am very disappointed that the simplest things cannot be done in it. And the instrument costs so much....

[maxremigio]

White Grand in Bright timbre, MUST be EQ modulated because it's too shinny. That's the reason I prefer Grand 3D or Studio Grand 2.

[istominmusic]

What's really bad about NORD is that the two blocks with treatments have fixed effects. This is very strange. For example in Yamaha XF I can use 2 blocks, but in each block I can choose any effect I want. And in Nord as a result I can't use for example amplitude modulation and also panoramic modulation. I mean that the volume would change smoothly and the sound would rotate left-right. I can freely make this mushy electric piano sound in Yamaha. But such an expensive instrument NORD can not allow it (such a simple thing, which is allowed by instruments of ten years ago). It's strange.

[M_E_T_R_O__]

can i octave a piano without wasting another piano? thanks

[istominmusic]

Here's another example. Why reverb and delay can be done “globally” except that you can adjust for each instrument (out of seven) separately. BUT! Why the effects block (amplitude modulation or panorama rotation) was not made globally! It could be much more important than a global reverb!
There is a whole problem with effects.
Why, for example, if you use organ rotation in an effect block, the sound becomes MONO!!! And what is the point of offering this effect if the sound immediately becomes flat, losing stereo volume!?!???

[Robin_S]

The volume jumps when moving the volume slider 😢

[maximusfrank]

Still badly needs a second eq, and second compressor would be nice, where you can glue all your instruments together

[istominmusic]

Next. I just hooked up an extra pedal that just has a button inside. I would like this pedal to be like a controller, just switching some modes. But dear NORD says it's “not a compatible pedal”. So such an expensive instrument again can't do the simplest thing, just take a button (pedal with a button) and assign to it the simplest switching? It's advertised as a “cool stage instrument with tons of control settings”, yet again this instrument can't do the simplest thing!
So, if I want to be able to switch something in pedal mode (like a button) I have to buy an expensive NORD pedal, so that I can't use the simple pedal I have? The instrument can't even work with a A simple button!